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I made this foldable story book to use tomorrow as my kids return to school/speech after the winter break. Does anyone else have trouble brainstorming names to use in stories like these? I used Daniel in this one, because that's my husband's name. I'm also trying to think of names since I am pregnant (yay!!!), and I'm having a hard time! I feel like I'm usually a pretty creative person, but when it comes to names, I can't do it! Click here to download!
I LOVE using these with my students and my students LOVE using them too! They are great for differentiating with your students or using with ELL learners. I use interactive stories with my students during our group time. It helps to keep their attention when everyone is taking turns to match the correct pictures to each page. I thought I'd take a gander at creating my own interactive book since I use them so much. I wanted to share this one for free with you-- I hope it's something you can use in your classroom! It's great to use now or even after break in January. Click {here} or the photo above to download this Freebie! I'd love your feedback too!
Winter speech therapy freebies - activities and clipart to use in your speech sessions or classroom! Includes links to 5 freebies!
No prep vocabulary stories for winter! Target synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms with this product that includes 12 winter-themed stories! Each story includes a short (2-3 sentence) story and every story includes one synonym, antonym, and homonym question to answer! To prepare: Print desired pages. To use: Read each story. Then, have students provide a synonym and antonym for the indicated words. Students can write a sentence with the words that they provide. Students should also give two definitions for the homonym pair on each sheet.
These February speech therapy lesson plans include a free calendar download with articulation and language activities for Valentine's Day.
1-2-3 Come Do Some "There Was A Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow" Activities With Me There Was A Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colandro, is one of my favorite winter books. My kiddos LOVE it. It's perfect for practicing sequencing and a variety of other standards. With that in mind, I designed There Was A Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow Literacy Packet, with quick, easy and fun "print & go" activities, games, and even a class-made book “We Swallowed Some Stuff Too!. The packet includes: * A "label the cover" worksheet, with completed sample. * Characters, setting and events pocket chart cards. * Story elements, plus Beginning-Middle-& End parts of the story, worksheets. * Worksheets for sequencing the story. * Several writing prompt worksheets, for summarizing the story and explaining your favorite part. * Who-What-Why-When-Where-How? worksheet. * Several games, including a set of Memory Match cards that you can play 3 additional games with. *Venn diagram worksheets, which are a fun way to practice comparison & contrast. * A graphing extension. * 27, pocket chart, sentence cards, which help review the story, as well as practice capitalization & end punctuation. * There's a matching set of mini cards, to use for several other activities. * “Ask me to tell you the story." bookmarks. * "Ss is for snowman and . . ." beginning letter sound worksheet. * Rhyme time worksheet, with matching answer-key poster "How Many Words Can You Make?” worksheet with an answer-key poster, plus A class-made, writing prompt book: "We Swallowed Some Stuff Too". Since the story telling "slider" that I made for The Mitten, by Jan Brett, was such a hit, I decided to make one for The Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow too. There are two choices. One is vertical, the other horizontal, plus I’ve included a full-color pattern for you, as well as a black & white template for students. Students color, cut and glue their slider together. As children pull on the end of the “slider”, the various pictures go through the “window”, so that it looks like the cold lady is swallowing these things just like in the story. I introduce the lesson by reading the story, then share my sample with the children. We retell the tale together, using the picture prompts on the slider. My students now know what’s expected of them, and are excited to transition to making a "cold lady" of their own. Finally, another quick, easy and fun option for sequencing and retelling the story, is The Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow story Wheel and Puzzle Packet, which also helps assess comprehension. There are full color patterns to use for centers, as well as a sample to share, plus a black and white pattern, so your students can make their own. When everyone is done with their story wheel, take a moment to retell the story as a whole group, by turning the wheel. As a comprehension-assessment tool, and for fine motor practice, another option is to have students cut up the picture sections, then glue them to the blank wheel in the appropriate order. To practice ordinal numbers, have children write 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. on each piece. I've also included "Sequence the Story” Puzzles. Use the full-color versions for an independent center, and print the black & white pattern, so children can color, cut and arrange their own puzzle. There's also a writing prompt worksheet, where students write what happened in the story. If you’re studying fractions, be sure and take a teachable moment to review that vocabulary and information. I know a lot of teachers will be celebrating 100 Day soon, so the featured FREEBIE today is a packet of 18, 100 Day Certificates, in color as well as black and white. I hope you find them useful. Well that's it for today. Thanks for visiting. I hope your students enjoy The Little Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow and the certificates as much as mine do. Wishing you a carefree and cozy day. "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself!" - John Dewey
I love using the book, Stone Soup in therapy. There are so many activities that can be done with this activity on many different levels. I like to use this book and activities each winter and decided to put my activity up on Teachers pay Teachers this year for you all to enjoy! I use the version by Ann McGovern. I don't have a preference of one story version over the other, but this one was already in my classroom library when I started at my school! Here is what the download includes: Soup Place Mat (this can be used however you would like. I have included some ideas below!) In My Soup Articulation Activity Give each student a Soup Place Mat. Print out pages, cut and laminate. Place the cards face down on the table. Have student take turns choosing a card. Use the item on the card in the sentence: “I like _________ in my soup.” or “I do not like ________in my soup.” Students decide if they want to put the object they chose in their soup bowl or back into the pile. This activity created more language than I imagined! One student chose to make silly soup and put objects like a shark, flower, shoes, etc. in his soup. He spontaneously told me a story about how the shark was chasing the shoes and the flower around the soup bowl! With younger students, you can also use these cards to sort food vs. not food items. I did the sorting activity with my PreK students. Story Sequencing Activity Print out story map and object cards, cut, and laminate. Have students put the objects requested in the story in order. Let students retell the story using their sequencing map. Stone Soup Story Grammar Students complete the worksheet targeting characters, setting, and main events in the story. Writing Prompt Student write about how they think the soup was made from a stone. Make Your Own Soup! Students create their own soup listing their own characters and what ingredients they will bring to make the soup! I have this activity for sale in my story for $3.00 Click here to download it and get your soup on!
I plan on creating a unit to go with each of the "There Was An Old Lady..." books, so this is my next installment! This one is a little different, as it is a Cold Lady instead of an Old Lady, but the kids think it is fun all the same! I also ended up buying this one on Amazon for my iPad, so it will be a change of pace using that instead of the actual book. I will let you know how it goes! But until then...here is the language packet I created to go with "There Was A Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow!"
This fun product allows students to practice their articulation skills while they are creating some seriously silly stories! There are seven fall and winter themed fill-in-the-blank silly stories. There are word banks broken up by parts of speech for the sounds /r/ in the initial position, /r/ in a...
I have been using interactive books like these for years. My ASD team purchased a few of the Pyramid Educational Consultants books back when I started in the ASD realm. I can't even find the books that I have for sale anywhere now. After we started using these, I realized that I wanted to make my own. This was way before I really knew how to create products, and I think I created it in Microsoft Word. For my friends who make products, you will understand that it took a LONG time to create this original product. I have a really hard time formatting anything in Word. It is just hard for me to get things to go where I want them to. Anyway, back to my original books. I made several winter themed books about what we do in winter vs. summer and also what do we wear in winter vs. summer. These books were a big hit, and I used them for years. Fast forward to now...I have so many students who are struggling with sentence expansion, vocabulary, and answering simple questions. I wanted to update my books (they were looking a little old, tattered, and dated) for use with a variety of my students. The first two that I have made are: Winter Activities and Winter Clothes. Both of these books have already been big hits with my students with ASD (and their teachers) as well as some of my students in Kindergarten and First Grade who are working on some different language skills such as answering questions and expanding utterance length. These books are really easy to put together and use: •Print and laminate all pages. •Cut the top half of the book pages. Leave the last page whole (this is where you will store your interactive pieces. •Hole punch all pages within the black box. I use two holes. Then, place the book pages on top of The last page. Bind the book using book rings. Another option would be to bind the book with a binding machine. •Cut out the interactive pieces. •Place a piece of hook Velcro on each sentence square on each book page, as well as on top of each square picture on the last page. Place a piece of loop Velcro on the back of each interactive piece. Store these pieces on the last page. •Students will read the book, and move the interactive pieces to the sentence box for each page. You can find these books at my TpT store HERE. There will be more to come! I already have my summer ones completed, just haven't totally tested them out yet. I'll keep you updated as more of these come out. ***Updated Winter 2015!!! I have added an additional book to this set. What Do You See? is the latest book. My students did really well using the spring, summer, and fall versions of this, so I went back and added the What Do You See? for winter. Hopefully you and your students enjoy these as much as we have!
Raise your hand if you are ready for spring! Both my hands are up! This Florida girl is over the cold weather and ready to stick my toes in the ocean 🙂 Until that time comes, I have started working on spring activities for my speech room. First on the list…another wonderful Bear book… Bear Wants […]
1-2-3 Come Do Some "There Was A Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow" Activities With Me There Was A Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colandro, is one of my favorite winter books. My kiddos LOVE it. It's perfect for practicing sequencing and a variety of other standards. With that in mind, I designed There Was A Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow Literacy Packet, with quick, easy and fun "print & go" activities, games, and even a class-made book “We Swallowed Some Stuff Too!. The packet includes: * A "label the cover" worksheet, with completed sample. * Characters, setting and events pocket chart cards. * Story elements, plus Beginning-Middle-& End parts of the story, worksheets. * Worksheets for sequencing the story. * Several writing prompt worksheets, for summarizing the story and explaining your favorite part. * Who-What-Why-When-Where-How? worksheet. * Several games, including a set of Memory Match cards that you can play 3 additional games with. *Venn diagram worksheets, which are a fun way to practice comparison & contrast. * A graphing extension. * 27, pocket chart, sentence cards, which help review the story, as well as practice capitalization & end punctuation. * There's a matching set of mini cards, to use for several other activities. * “Ask me to tell you the story." bookmarks. * "Ss is for snowman and . . ." beginning letter sound worksheet. * Rhyme time worksheet, with matching answer-key poster "How Many Words Can You Make?” worksheet with an answer-key poster, plus A class-made, writing prompt book: "We Swallowed Some Stuff Too". Since the story telling "slider" that I made for The Mitten, by Jan Brett, was such a hit, I decided to make one for The Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow too. There are two choices. One is vertical, the other horizontal, plus I’ve included a full-color pattern for you, as well as a black & white template for students. Students color, cut and glue their slider together. As children pull on the end of the “slider”, the various pictures go through the “window”, so that it looks like the cold lady is swallowing these things just like in the story. I introduce the lesson by reading the story, then share my sample with the children. We retell the tale together, using the picture prompts on the slider. My students now know what’s expected of them, and are excited to transition to making a "cold lady" of their own. Finally, another quick, easy and fun option for sequencing and retelling the story, is The Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow story Wheel and Puzzle Packet, which also helps assess comprehension. There are full color patterns to use for centers, as well as a sample to share, plus a black and white pattern, so your students can make their own. When everyone is done with their story wheel, take a moment to retell the story as a whole group, by turning the wheel. As a comprehension-assessment tool, and for fine motor practice, another option is to have students cut up the picture sections, then glue them to the blank wheel in the appropriate order. To practice ordinal numbers, have children write 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. on each piece. I've also included "Sequence the Story” Puzzles. Use the full-color versions for an independent center, and print the black & white pattern, so children can color, cut and arrange their own puzzle. There's also a writing prompt worksheet, where students write what happened in the story. If you’re studying fractions, be sure and take a teachable moment to review that vocabulary and information. I know a lot of teachers will be celebrating 100 Day soon, so the featured FREEBIE today is a packet of 18, 100 Day Certificates, in color as well as black and white. I hope you find them useful. Well that's it for today. Thanks for visiting. I hope your students enjoy The Little Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow and the certificates as much as mine do. Wishing you a carefree and cozy day. "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself!" - John Dewey
I love Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash by Sarah Weeks! It is so much fun and when you read the word “underwear,” the kids all giggle and think it is hilarious. 🙂 I made 5 activities to go with this book that your students will enjoy. Stop at The Organized Classroom Blog to pick ... Read More about Silly Story Activities
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This week in preschool our teachers are using the book, Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London. I love this book but I didn't have any materials prepped for it so I got busy making a few differentiated
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January book list is here! This month includes some of my most favorite titles and some of the most beautifully illustrated children's books you've ever seen!
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I’m so excited to introduce a new blog series – Theme Thursdays! I love using themes in therapy! They’re such a fun way to build speech and language skills. I’ll be stopping in at least one Thursday every month to share ideas, resources, crafts, books, and more that go along with a fun theme! Today, ... Read More about Yeti Theme in Speech Therapy!
Looking for some fun activities to do with your kids in the winter? Check out these hands-on fun for Jan Brett's The Mitten.
Target winter-themed social skills with this fun and interactive product!! This product includes 27 winter-related situation strips and 6 hot chocolate emotion cards that students can select from to determine how a person might be feeling in a given situation. To prepare: Print hot chocolate emotion cards and situation strips. Laminate and cut out if desired. To use: Read each situation and have students determine how the indicated person might feel in each situation. The hot chocolate emotions provide added support for students who need it, but you can also remove these cards if you want to make the activity a little bit more challenging!
"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well." Olympic Creed Beijing Winter Olympics In 2022, the next Winter Olympics will be held at Beijing, China, with the opening ceremony on 4th February and the closing ceremony on 20th February. We'll be producing a full range of Winter Olympic resources - for home and school - nearer the time! Winter Olympic Sports Colouring pages, learn to draw printables, writing pages, posters, videos ... so much winter sports fun! Alpine Skiing Biathlon Bobsled Cross-Country Skiing Curling Figure Skating Freestyle Skiing Ice Hockey Luge Nordic Combined Short Track Speed Skating Skeleton Ski Jumping Snowboarding Speed Skating
Snow Problem This winter themed product will help your elementary students (or those working at this social cognitive level) identify problems, determine how big a problem it is,and choose a predictable reaction. There are color and black & white printing options along with extension ideas and activities to continue working on these important social skills! This product is perfect for your social skills groups, counseling groups, speech therapy or as a whole class lesson. ***************************************************************************** Other social skills products you may like XO XOH NO. Brainbow. That’s Sick. Please consider following my store so you will be the first to know and snap up these great deals and new products. My goal is for you to be completely satisfied with my products, so please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns. Thanks for your purchase! ***************************************************************************** Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. Voila! You will now receive email updates about this store. ☺
Articulation Roll a Dice Copyright Amy Minor, Major Speech Pathology Fun by a Minor Girl There are many “Roll a Dice” Items out there, but I could not find one that truly targeted the sounds I needed for my caseload this year. So, I decided to try one out for myself. The clip art is from www.mycutegraphics.com. I made the clipart items small so it doesn’t use too much of your ink. I know that is always a struggle for as much as we all print off. The Student will roll the dice. The student will then read the 4 words that correspond with that dice number rolled. If the student says all of the words correctly, they get point’s equivalent to the number on the dice. For example: If a student rolls a 3, the student will say each of the words. If stated correctly, the student will have 3 points. Included in this activity: 1. R Initial Roll a Dice 2. CH All Positions Roll a Dice 3. TH All Positions Roll a Dice 4. L Initial Roll a Dice 5. Point Cards Print off as many point cards as you need so you don’t run out. There are 66 point cards on one page!
Winter Social Skills Bundle This money saving bundle will carry your social skills therapy throughout the winter months! Included are five products with over 150 pages of activities to address a variety of social skills for your Pre-K through Elementary aged students (or those working at this social cognitive level). Each of these products are also available individually in my store: Snow Problem: identifying the size of a problem How to Play Reindeer Games: the social skills of play Polar POV: point of view and context activities The Abominable No-man: Original social language story and activities on saying “no” What’s In My Cup?: inferences and vocabulary activities with a hot cocoa theme ***************************************************************************** Other Social Language Products You Might LIke Listen Up! Interactive book for Active Listening. XO XOH NO Think vs. Say. Frozen Frenzy: Group Work. ***************************************************************************** Customer Tips:How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. Voila! You will now receive email updates about this store. ☺
Winter is here! This packet is full of activities to get students ready for the chilly weather. These activities include instructions, recording sheets, and answers sheets where appropriate. Activities included are: -Synonyms -Antonyms -Singular and Plural nouns ( a few are irregular ) -Possessive Nouns -Pronouns -Winter Word Scramble -Adjective story with picture to draw
This week we started one of my favorite reading units~ Tacky the Penguin! I made this packet of activities to add to the unit that I know my kiddos will have a lot of fun with! I'm so excited to use these with my class! I think they'll enjoy the Tacky brain break cards the most! That's just a sample of what is inside. Click here to read more! Here are a few freebie pages from the set that I hope your students will like! Click on the picture to download it from my dropbox! Have fun with them!
The Hat Matching Game The Hat by Jan Brett is the story of a young girl, Lisa, who gets out her winter woolens and takes them to the clothesline to air out. One of her stockings blows off the line, and is investigated by the curious Hedgie. It gets stuck on his prickles, and he pretends it is a magnificent hat. The other animals are inspired by Hedgie's hat, and each becomes the owner of a new hat, in the form of Lisa's winter clothing. Lisa must chase the animals to get her clothes back, while Hedgie finally makes it back to his den. Making Learning Fun has an emergent reader that can be found here. Other activities for The Hat are available at the Making Learning Fun website. Jan Brett has downloads available here.
This freebie includes: -story elements worksheet -sequence the characters cut & paste activity -"Who's in the Mitten?" predictable reader book/ cut, match & paste Enjoy! N. Lanier's Lions
The Let's Grow Articulation eBook for /k/ and /g/ includes over 100 pages of practice words, sentences, stories, and games including colorful, motivating illustrations by Symbolstix. It covers 9 themes including Back to School, Nature, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Winter, Mealtime, Spring, and Summer making it ideal to use with thematic units all year long. Perfect for fast and easy speech homework! FREE bonus material included: Speech Sound Developmental Chart Tips for Teaching /k/ and /g/ Suggested Reading List Data Sheets For special bundle pricing, including all five "Let's Grow Articulation" series books, visit: http://letsgrowspeech.com/lets-grow-articulation-activities/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Happy New Year everyone! I've had a nice vacation (except for the flu), and am looking forward to a few more days off. Here's a fre...
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